Category: Writing

Assessment Deliverable 
Complete Part 1 and Part 2.
Part 1: Written Piece
Choose 1 topic you are interested in that can be written about in 1 of the following genres:
Professional email advocating for a change at work 
How-to essay describing a process for home or work
Persuasive essay on a debatable issue 
Compose a maximum 525-word written piece that includes the necessary components for your chosen genre. Include the following in your written piece:
The genre’s audience 
Purpose and context
Conventions and trends (e.g., citations, word choice, and writing to the correct official) for your chosen genre
Correct formatting and structure for your chosen genre
Refer to the resources in the Assessment Support section for help with this assessment.
Part 2: Reflection
Insert a page break after your piece of writing. To create a page break in Word, go to the Layout menu and click on Breaks.
Write a reflection addressing the following questions in at least 1 sentence each:
What genre did you choose for your written piece? In what ways does your writing demonstrate this genre?
All writing has a purpose that is unique to the situation. What did you hope to accomplish with your written piece?
What research did you conduct for this assignment? 
Cite your sources and format your assignment according to APA guidelines. Check out the Assessment Support section for a link to the Center for Writing Excellence, where you can find the Reference & Citation Generator.

Compare/Contrast Essay Prompt
Directions:  Select two issue-oriented advertisements, within the same format, dealing with the same subject matter and a topic of great interest to your identity group.  Closely examine and review the two ads to determine how the verbal and visual components can affect an audience and create arguments from many positions.
Step 1:  Ask yourself:  Is this ad effective or significant?  How?  Why?  Who has placed the ad?  What was the intended purpose of the ad?  Where did you find the ad?  Why was it placed in that particular publication?  Who is the target audience? Is your identity group part of the intended audience or not? Why? When (How recently?) did the ad appear in the publication?  Does it deal with an ongoing issue or one that is time sensitive?  How effective or significant (meaningful) is the ad?  How do its verbal and visual components contribute to its effectives or significance?  What is your personal response to the ad?  Why do you respond this way? 
Step 2:  Your answers to the questions in Step 1 will assist you in analyzing or critiquing ad components.  However, your answers alone do not make an essay.  You should use the answers as a starting point from which you will develop a narrative voice and organize an essay to convey your position on the effectiveness of the two ads according to your chosen identity group.  Your purpose is to inform readers, helping them decide if the ad has value or fulfills its intended purpose; help us understand why we should pay attention to the ad and its inherent issues.  We, as consumers, need to be critical thinkers and skeptical, which leads us to investigating and asking questions.
Step 3:  Write a focus statement, a thesis or claim, to guide your essay.  Begin a first draft in which you carefully arrange and connect your ideas, choose appropriate transitions to move from one idea to another, and support your main claims and any sub-claims with verbal and visual details from the ad. 
Structure:  For this essay, I’d like you to select three points of comparison. You might look at the use of color, eye-catching ability, appropriateness of ad for target audience, etc. Then, use these points to develop your thesis on how effective the ads really are in relation to your identity group. Focus on one point at a time and be as detailed as you possibly can in your analysis.
Thesis:  Once you’ve identified your position, construct a thesis statement that clearly states the topic and your position, without using “I.”  The purpose of a thesis is to guide you and to help you with an organization pattern.  Make sure that your thesis is not too broad and that it clearly states the subject matter; also, make sure that your thesis covers what you want to discuss in the body of the essay. 
Sample thesis to model for comparison/contrast:
Since the 2003 Wizbang is more economical to own and operate than the 2003 Roadhog, it is popular among middle class families. 
Although both Claritin and Allegra-D treat allergies, Claritin is more effective and has fewer side effects than Allegra-D, making it the go to choice for allergy sufferers.
The Army’s strategy for recruitment has a better appeal to the poor than the Navy’s because their ads appreciate the widening income gap between the rich and the poor. 
Writing Your Compare/Contrast Essay
Prewriting
To get started writing your essay:
Review What is an Essay?
Take time to review possible subjects
Use prewriting to help you focus and narrow your topic.
Remember that “essay starters” are everywhere.  If you keep a journal or diary, a simple event may unfold into an essay. Simply said, your essays may be closer than you think!
Drafting
When drafting your essay:
Develop an enticing title
Use the introduction to pull the reader into the points you want to make.
Think of specific, interesting details or events to incorporate into the essay to grab the reader.
Let the essay reflect your own voice (is your voice serious, humorous, matter-of-fact?)
Organize the essay in a way that may capture the reader, but don’t string the reader along too much with “next, next, next. Use your transition words and phrases!
Assignment Instructions
Create a prewriting in the style of your choice for the prompt.Review the prewriting videos on the My Writing Process: Prewriting and Draft page if needed.
Develop a draft essay according to the following formatting guidelines. Papers submitted that do not meet these formatting requirements will be returned to you ungraded.
Minimum of 2 typed, double-spaced pages (about 400–550 words), Times New Roman, 12 pt font size
MLA formatting (see the MLA Format page as needed)
Submitted as either a .Microsoft Word doc, .or rtf file
5. Submit your prewriting and draft as a single file upload.
Requirements
Be sure to:
Develop your essay by comparison and contrast using the three-points-of analysis scheme
Create a logical sequence for your points of comparison
Develop an enticing title
Use the introduction to establish the situation the essay will address
Avoid addressing the assignment directly (don’t write “I am going to write about…” – this takes the fun out of reading the work!)
Let the essay reflect your own voice (Is your voice serious? Humorous? Matter-of-fact?)
Make sure you take time to reflect on why your points are significant.
If you developed your prewriting by hand on paper, scan or take a picture of your prewriting, load the image onto your computer, and then insert the image on a separate page after your draft.

The assignment needs to answer this question: “Could this book have been written today? 
Why or why not?”  I’ve attached to images that state the books that can be used for this essay. The essay should respond to 1 of these books. 

Write an 8-page research paper about a sacred space in Jerusalem: Umayyad
Dome of The Rock, discussing
the early history of the site and its development under the Umayyads while
touching briefly on later contexts and modern implications, but the focus
should be on one era rather than its entire history from conception to the
present-day!!!
Must construct a thesis about this topic. Italicize the thesis
statement in your draft.
Do not discuss anything political!
This is solely about the early history of the site and how it developed,
nothing political.
Resources: I attached a few
resources, but feel free to use even more resources, there should be 8
secondary resources, and 2 primary resources such as the bible, etc. Use
the following resources to help you develop your research: Write an entire
bibliography in MLA format adding to the ones I attached.
Make sure you also use this resource:
Ibn Kathir, Ismail ibn Umar. Al-Bidayah wa-n-Nihayah (The Beginning
and the End). Vol. 7. Beirut: Dar al-Kotob al-Ilmiyah, 2012. Print. 
In-text citation!! and also use primary sources like the bible, and use the resources I attached, as well as Karen Armstrong’ s paper, etc.

wrote a research paper on an Aviation Ethical Dilemma or Issue to write about and make sure you cover all angles of the issue/dilemma. Include history, what laws or regulatory rules may have been broken, or what laws protect against such unethical behavior/s. Think about things like ethics in aviation safety, ethics of politicians, passengers, pilots, flight attendants, airport administrators, air traffic controllers, mechanics, ramp workers, baggage handlers or other aviation employees. Also, think about unethical behavior by airports, airlines or other operators perhaps such as too many not climate friendly emissions, oil and fuel spills.
this essay must have full page introduction, Body paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and conclusion
must include a thesis statement
evidences in MLA format ( cite correctly with Author’s last name at the end.)
Executive Summary: This summary should be brief and should serve as a stand-alone document. In addition to providing a summary of your briefing, including a thesis statement which you must address during your briefing it should also include the title of your briefing, your names, date, and class (1/2 page).
Main Body: a. Problem Statement and Background on the challenge being addressed. This section should demonstrate that you have a clear understanding of the issues surrounding the challenge as well as current conditions and state-of- the-art approaches. B. Problem Solving Approach to the Challenge: This section should include a thorough description of work including a description of the selected approaches/theories for solving the presented problem/issue (7 pages).
Conclusion: The challenge must be restated and an appropriate solution presented (1/2 page).

Discuss the advances in technology such as EDI, RFID, and the Internet within the intermodal industry as well as how these technologies are beneficial to retail customers using intermodal transportation to get their product to market. Give sources to back up your position.

Program Intervention Assignment (Research/Advocacy Project) Develop
a 5-6 paged minimum original Research and Advocacy Project that will
argue for an advocacy position on an issue of your own choosing built
upon your lived experiences navigating various social institutions, use
your knowledge of sociology and criminal justice as Praxis, and original
research conducted through the sources provided.
Demonstrate the
ability to harness the power of your experiences, educational
advancements, and topic-specific research conducted to meaningfully
address and improve a “social inequity of focus” (macro, meso, or
micro-focused) of your choosing by creating a fictitious policy and or program targeting your social inequity of focus. Closely relate to local law enforcement as a desired career choice and communicate why and how you want to participate within this social realm/institution. You
will focus your program/intervention on either option below, depending
on whether or not your are considered an “Internship Student” or are an
“Alternate Pathway” student:
Develop a new program related to one
of the major social institutions designed to ameliorate/address a social
justice issue of your choice. (Example Organization: School
district. Example problem: Lack of wifi access for all students doing
distance learning. Example Intervention: “Club WiFi” Take unused school
buses and turn them into mobile Wi-Fi hotspots and park them in
different zones across the school district on a rotating schedule that
provides WiFi access coupled with lived experience youth mentors and
tutors). You must do the following: 1. Give the program a name and design a representative logo a. The logo can be technology-generated or drawn, but must be original! 2.
Explain and describe the internal organizational problem or the
external social problem that your intervention will address. Give enough
detail to explain what is happening and why it is a problem. Draw on
the 2 scholarly, peer-reviewed, independently sourced sociological
articles I included below. b. Also reference all articles provided. c. Explain and describe the structure of the program intervention. Give
enough detail here to understand who this program is for, who will run
the program, what resources will be needed and included, how it will be
facilitated, who’s labor will go into overseeing and running the
program, what information or services will be provided, when it will
occur, etc. If there is an information, training, or education component
to your intervention, make sure to explain what that will include. ii.
In other words, consider addressing many of the following in this
section: ● What would you like to see change or improve in society
related to inequality, justice, and criminology and justice studies
related fields, institutions, and/or the policies, procedures, and practices they perform? ● How did you come to your advocacy position? How does it relate to you, your internship service, your research interests, and/or your future career plans? ● For whom in particular might such changes and improvements make a helpful difference? ● Where and when would such changes and improvements be most/least effective? ● Why should institutions, organizations, policies, and practices – and the people that influence them – have stakes in the changes and improvements you propose? ● How should these changes and improvements take place? ● Who should be involved? Why? ● Where should this take place? Why? 3. Explain two projected outcomes of the program. a. What are the potential benefits or positive impacts that instituting this intervention will bring? i.
Be detailed here and draw on the 2 sociological sources provided to
support your argument. In the example above about mobile hotspots it
would not be enough to merely say that a projected outcome would be
“increased access to Wi-Fi for low-income students.” I know that that will be an outcome because that is the intervention. ii.
take it a step further by making an argument about what outcomes that
increased access to Wi-Fi might have for these students, drawing on
existing research to support your argument (for instance, there
is research that demonstrates that consistent and stable access to Wi-Fi
has significant impacts on k-12 student GPA, how mentoring relationships
are foundational for student learning and engagement, an inverse
relationship with youth offense rates and/or recidivism, etc). 4.
Consider and explain at least one potential barrier to developing your
proposed program intervention. You do not have to come up with a
solution to that barrier, but you can propose potential ways to overcome
those barriers. Think sociologically about why there might be
resistance to or constraints around your potential intervention. 5.
Conclusion and Call to Action a. You must not only “wrap-up” the
contents of your paper in a methodical and well-organized manner, but
you must also include an urgent, “call to action” positioning your
suggestions for addressing the inequality of focus as vital in
facilitating and advancing social justice efforts. 6. You must
provide a Works Cited/Reference page for all the provided resources. In
addition, you must provide in-text citations (ASA, MLA, APA formatting)
every time you draw on these materials – either explicitly with a quote
or implicitly by paraphrasing. See the documents/resources in the Final
Project Module and Writing Resources Module in Canvas for help on
formatting these citations and the structure/content of your paper
overall.
Structure Breakdown 1. Program Name and Logo ● Creativity and originality of the program name ● Representation and relevance of the logo design 2. Problem Description and Sociological Support ● Clarity and depth of the problem description ●
Integration of sociological sources to support the problem statement ●
Relevance and recentness of sourced articles (2018-current) 3. Program Structure and Implementation ● Clarity and comprehensiveness of the program structure ● Identification of target audience and program beneficiaries ● Explanation of resources needed and facilitation process ● Consideration of labor and oversight for program execution ● Description of information, training, or education components 4. Justification and Advocacy Position ● Explanation of desired societal changes and improvements ● Connection between advocacy position and personal experiences, research interests, and career plans ● Identification of stakeholders and rationale for involvement ● Consideration of effectiveness, timing, and location of proposed changes 5. Projected Outcomes ● Detailed description of potential benefits or positive impacts of the intervention
● Integration of sociological sources to support projected outcomes 6. Barriers and Solutions ● Identification and explanation of at least one potential barrier ● Sociological analysis of resistance or constraints ● Proposal of potential ways to overcome barriers 7. Conclusion and Call to Action: ● Methodical and well-organized wrap-up of paper contents ● Inclusion of an urgent “call to action” for addressing educational inequality 8. Writing Mechanics and Citations: ● Adherence to ASA Style Reference for all academic sources ● Proper in-text citations following ASA formatting guidelines Criteria Program Name and Logo Problem Description and Sociological Support Program Structure and Implementation
Justification and Advocacy Position Projected Outcomes Barriers and Solutions Conclusion and Call to Action Writing Mechanics and Citations For
an example of a program that contains many of the required criteria,
please refer to: Program Profile: Promoting First Relationships for
Native Families

A supplier that tells a potential buyer about its financial problems may accelerate its own demise. Potential buyers will shy away from the supplier while existing buyers will begin to qualify new sources. While our parents told us that honesty is the best policy, it is a policy that is sometimes buried deep in the back of a supplier’s playbook. It is not that the supplier’s personnel are inherently bad or dishonest. They are simply practicing self-preservation. What are some tools and techniques that buyers will use to qualify a supplier prior to doing business with them?

write a 1.250 word essay over the following prompt: describe a current policy challenge and explain what should be done to address it.

As we embark upon group work, we cannot overlook the importance of cohesion and the impact of cohesion on group dynamics. In your view, what are the positive and negative aspects of cohesive groups, and why is cohesion important to organizational management?